יום שבת, י״ב תמוז תשפ״וSaturday, June 27, 2026
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Rav Dovid Hofstedter is the author of the Dorash Dovid sefarim. He is also the founder and head of Dirshu – a worldwide Torah movement that promotes accountability in Torah learning and has impacted over 100,000 participants since it began. Notable Dirshu programs include Daf HaYomi B’Halacha, Kinyan Torah, Chazaras HaShas, Kinyan Halacha, Kollel Baalei Batim, and Acheinu Kiruv Rechokim. Dirshu also publishes the “Mehaduras Dirshu” Mishnah Berurah, the Dirshu Shul Chumash with Ramban, the “Mehaduras Dirshu” Sefer Chofetz Chaim among other publications.
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So too in our times we must invest our blood - our effort and our toil - in serving Hashem.
A world from which America retreats is a dangerous world indeed.
This has served to lower the bar when it comes to accepted standards of morality while corroding some once-healthy American ideals.
This is not the only time in Jewish ritual where we demonstrate that as Jews we have a clear interest in involving the world at large in our avodah.
We are grateful to Hashem that we have been privileged to institute this program and that over the years we have experienced tremendous siyata d’shmaya, with the program spreading throughout the world and its membership rapidly rising.
Rav Shlomo Wolbe states that every member of Klal Yisrael is dependent on the entire nation just as a leaf depends on the tree from which it grows.
Perhaps worse than all the above is the acute lack of unity among Jews
Achdus, unity, is a term that warms the heart. It is an ideal we all aspire to achieve but often find so elusive.
We are still in galus. Another year has gone by, a difficult year in many ways, but Mashiach has not yet arrived, the Beis HaMikdash has not yet been rebuilt and we are still languishing in exile.
“Therefore we are obligated to give thanks…to the One Who performed all these miracles for our forefathers and for us. He took us out from slavery to freedom…and from servitude to redemption.” – Haggadah shel Pesach
June 26, 2026 
